SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 5AMasterplan consent areas

PART 2Making and altering of schemes by planning authorities

Duty to seek to make or alter scheme when directed to do so

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(1)

The Scottish Ministers may at any time direct a planning authority to—

(a)

make a scheme in such terms as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate, or

(b)

alter a scheme in such manner as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.

(2)

It is the duty of a planning authority given a direction under this paragraph to seek to make or (as the case may be) alter a scheme in accordance with the direction.

(3)

Sub-paragraph (2) does not relieve a planning authority from having to comply with the requirements for making or altering a scheme set out in Part 3.